Talk:Snarfing

Snarfing is an old US colloquialism for eating, used e.g. by crime writer James Ellroy. -- Tim —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.20.68 (talk) 13:48, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

I my opinion, the "explanation" on the article that the verb "snarfing" comes from one or two animated characters named "snarf" is utter nonsense. Since the beginning of the 80s, Windowing systems from Bell Labs - Blit (computer terminal) and later plan 9, used the terms "snarf and paste" instead of what today is more usually called "copy and paste". I.e., to copy data from another process. I don't know where this term came from - possibly it came from an earlier (1960s) slang for "eating", i.e., the "snarf" operation would "eat" the data from another process. I don't think the animated shows were an inspiration for any of these terms. 192.114.107.4 (talk) 10:17, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * See also Snarf in the Hacker Dictionary] 192.114.107.4 (talk) 10:30, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree; since it's uncited and dubious at best, I've removed the reference to the cartoon characters. I've added a link to the disambiguation page instead.  Keepiru (talk) 09:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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